1 day ago
Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$114k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Select SoCs, memory, sensors, and other hardware components in collaboration with electrical engineers.
- Bring up new boards and hardware platforms, configure I/O, debug system initialization, and validate prototypes.
- Develop peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, power-management layers, and connectivity systems.
- Optimize firmware and hardware management for long battery life in sensors and gateways.
- Collaborate with product, full-stack, mobile, and quality engineers to deliver reliable device data and complete products.
- Design and review firmware systems, document technical decisions, and contribute to engineering standards and team practices.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of firmware development experience for resource-constrained systems shipped to customers.
- Fluency in C and experience diagnosing compiler, linker, memory, stack, and heap issues.
- Experience with bare-metal systems and RTOS environments such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS.
- Experience bringing up new boards and debugging hardware-software integration.
- Experience with SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and ADC interfaces.
- Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, or RF spectrum analyzers.
- Experience working across hardware, firmware, cloud, and quality teams through product shipment.
- Ability to write design documents, review comments, and actionable post-mortems.
- Experience delivering quickly while maintaining automated testing and maintainable code.
- Preferred experience with BLE, LTE-M or NB-IoT, secure boot, firmware signing, cryptography, key management, OTA updates, A/B partitions, rollback, embedded Linux, Yocto, Buildroot, kernel drivers, device trees, CAN/J1939, Python, Bash, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and electronics manufacturing.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $113,645-$191,000 USD, with eligibility for bonus or variable pay and equity; compensation figures excluded from benefit characterization.
- Flexible employee-led remote model with office-based work supported where operationally appropriate.
- Professional development stipend.
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing performance-based refresh opportunities, subject to plan terms.
About Samsara
Samsara builds a Connected Operations Cloud that uses IoT hardware and software to help fleets and other physical-operations organizations monitor vehicles, assets, and worksites. Its platform spans video-based driver safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, and mobile workflows, sold as subscriptions with accompanying devices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Samsara is a public company on the NYSE (ticker: IOT) serving transportation, construction, manufacturing, field services, and government.